Rare letter from Titanic victim on show at exhibition

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Letter written by a young electrical engineer from Glasgow written on the day before he boarded the doomed Titanic has been uncovered

A century ago today, a young electrical engineer from Glasgow sat down to
write a letter to his brother in Canada. Despite being only 28-years-old,
Robert Douglas Norman asked his sibling to make arrangements for his estate
to be distributed, should he die unmarried.

That letter would be his last – as the following day he boarded the doomed Titanic.

Now, the missive has been uncovered by Scotland’s record-keepers and is to
form part of an exhibition to mark the sinking of the liner.

Mr Norman died six days after writing it, one of more than 1,500 people to
perish when